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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
The twins were 7, shy and scared. Talking was tough, and describing what had happened to them was nearly impossible. So the prosecutor preparing them to testify against their father, who they said had molested them, borrowed a dog named Jeeter. “It was a last-ditch effort to try to build ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, ...
An unemployed drifter who became an Internet sensation in February after he brandished a hatchet to stop an assault has ...
Jewelry worth $1.4 million was stolen from a hotel in a predawn heist Friday during the Cannes Film Festival, officials said. The robbery took place in the hotel room of an American employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard as she was out for the evening. ...
An Australian choreographer alleged Thursday that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer’s estate described as “outrageous and sad.” Wade Robson — who testified at Jackson’s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched ...
The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been perpetrated by Ariel Castro on Seymour Avenue in the rust-belt city of Cleveland stands out. He stands accused of ...
A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flash point ...
Two waiters at a Mexico City bar will face homicide and robbery charges in the beating death of Malcolm X’s grandson Malcolm Shabazz, authorities said Monday. Prosecutors said police are seeking at least two other people believed to have participated in the attack on ...
With U.S. kidnap victim Michelle Knight now free, a horrifying story is emerging of chronic abuse and trauma well before her 11 years of captivity in the Cleveland “house of horrors” began. The 32-year-old, one of three women dramatically rescued from a home in ...
The brothers of the U.S. man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said in an interview aired Sunday that they had no idea what was happening. “If I knew that my brother was doing this, ...
Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19, including two children, police said. FBI spokeswoman Mary Beth Romig said federal investigators have no indication that the shooting was an ...
Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn’t always sure where she’d wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle “Shorty” Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that’s why they worried. She got in ...
Year after year, the clock ticked on and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare. Now, for the women freed from captivity inside a Cleveland house, the ordeal is not ...
A DNA test has confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a Cleveland house for about a decade: Ariel Castro, suspected of kidnapping and raping them, is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along ...
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are probing the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of ...